Flute Teacher,The Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao
National Second-Class Performer
Principal Flautist,Qingdao Symphony Orchestra
Vice President,Qingdao Flute Society

Zhang Bin is a distinguished graduate of both the Affiliated High School and the undergraduate program at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he studied under Professor Wang Yongxin, a renowned flute educator in China. Zhang’s extensive performance career has taken him to iconic venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall in the USA, Yale University, and various prestigious locations in South Korea, Italy, France, Slovenia, Chile, and Argentina, as well as major cultural centers in China like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

In 2018, Zhang was commissioned by the Chinese Ministry of Culture to perform in Morocco as part of the 60th-anniversary celebrations of Sino-Moroccan diplomatic relations and the Belt and Road cultural exchange initiatives. His engagements continued in 2019 with performances in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan under the same initiative, and he played a significant role in the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at a major event in Tiananmen Square. In 2020, he performed the China premiere of Jean-Louis Beaumadier’s Jazz Suite for Flute at the Qingdao Grand Theatre. That same year, he also contributed to the popularization of flute music with educational programs on Shandong Education Channel. In 2022, he produced instructional videos on Köhler’s challenging études for the China Flute Association and served as a judge at the Huaxia Cup National Flute Competition.

Zhang is a revered pedagogue, under whose guidance numerous students have won first prizes at the National Junior Golden Bell Music Competition, earning him the “Outstanding Tutor Award.” His students have been admitted to prestigious institutions worldwide, such as the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in the USA, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Hungary, Fontys Academy of the Arts and ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands, and several top conservatories in China including the Central Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Xi’an Conservatory of Music, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and Shandong University of the Arts. Additionally, his students have gone on to attend Beihang University (formerly Beijing Institute of Aeronautics), Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Xiamen University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.